Retrofpec# of German Literature. Pocket-books, Se. 
novel by Dahnert, which, together 
with Hildeguard de Hohenthal, by the 
fame author, well deferves to be recall- 
ed to the remembrance of our young 
readers, who feldom recolleét any work 
beyond the current year. The editor, 
GRAMBERG, has inferted in this pocket- 
book fome of his own poems. Thofe 
of a humourous nature, and his epi- 
grams, are really an acquifition in a 
branch of poetry in which Germany is 
rather deficient. 
«¢ The Pocket-book for 1803,”” publith- 
ed by Wilman, at Francfort, wereit lef 
elegant, would be fufficiently recom-_ 
mended by an Allegorical Dream by 
Herder—‘* Kalligenia, the Mother of 
Beauty.” . 
The intrinfic value of this beautiful 
vifion muft outweigh all the tiafei or- 
naments to which the generality of al- 
manacks owe their fhort-lived celebrity. 
it is a work of an author of Germany’s 
Auguftan age. Various artilts of note 
have contributed prints from paflages 
ef the moft celebrated authors. An 
‘Englith artift has drawn a fcene from 
Romeo and Juliet, and another from 
Goéthe’s little poem, the Miller’s Wife; 
and fome connoifleurs are inclined to 
give the preference to thefe exertions 
of our countryman. . 3 
‘© The Almanack for the Lovers of Sa- 
tireand Fun,” by FaLk,.at Weimar, 
is not unworthy of a genius who has 
tranflated into German, with fuccefs, 
Peter Pindar’s Loufiad. 
In this almanack, ‘* The City of the 
Sun,”’ a genuine idea, worthy of Arifto- | 
phanes, is made a vehicle of {fatire 
againft the follies of the prefent age. 
«¢T he Pocket-book of Travels,’ byE, 
R. de ZIMMERMANN, appeared laft year 
for the firit time ; and its diftinguithed 
merit infpireda general wih for its con~ 
tinuation. It confequently appears for 
1803, and contains'a defcription of a 
part of the world which the late events 
in St. Domingo have rendered particu- 
larly interefting. 
The author, who has confulted the 
beit writers, and is no lefs remarkable 
for his enlightened fentiments than for 
his extenfive reading, treats in this 
volume of the Weit India Iflands. 
The elegant prints of this excellent 
production are equally calculated to 
pleafe and to inftruct. It is faid that 
M. de Zimmermann (who, by-the- 
bye, is often confounded in England 
with the late phyfician to the Emprefs 
of Ruffa at Hanover, who wrote on 
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Solitude; but who is in faét Counfel- 
lor of State to the Duke of Brunf- 
wick,and who is fuficiently known 
in England by a work written in Eng- 
Irth, the Political Survey of Europe) 
intends to publifh this pocket-book 
every year in Englifh alfo:—it would 
be an acquifition for the juvenile lie 
brary. : 
‘¢ The Pocket-book for 1203,”” pub- 
lifhed by Vieweg, at Brunfwick, has for 
many years been diftinguifhed for its 
elegance; and the prefent, no lefs than 
its predeceflors, deferves a place ina 
lady’s library. 
Some geniufes of the firft celebrity 
have contributed to enrich it. The 
names of Wieland and Herder muft 
infure its fuccefs. The author of Obe- ° 
ron has produced a tale, ** Narciffus and 
Narcifla,” and his fportful fancy ftill de- 
lights in the flowery groves of fairy~ 
land. Two felf-lovers are, by the firft 
glance in a magic mirror, offered. to 
their view by their guardian-angels, 
converted into mutual lovers. Her- 
der’s melo-drama, ‘‘ Ariadne Libera,” 
is worthy of its claffical author, and de- 
ferves to be fet to mufic bya fecond 
Gluck. Huber has, in his tale ‘* Ra- 
ther Fortunate than Wie,” fucceeded 
in giving a higher degree of inner-worth 
to the characters of Goethe’s Charlotte 
and Werter ; and ‘*Sucky,”? by Lafon- 
taine, is a pretty trifle. This pocket- 
book, in allufion to Wieland’s tale, is 
adored with vignettes of fairies and 
genil. 
*¢ The Pocket-book for the Lovers of 
Nature andGardening, for 1803,” which 
has for nine years patt continued to de- 
{fcribe the moft celebrated parks and 
pleafure-grounds in Europe, contains, 
as a well-informed Englifh traveller has 
affured us, in a pocket fize more than 
many of the like works in England, 
printed in folio, and at an extravagant 
price. A 
For 1803 it contains a defcription, 
and 'fome well-executed views of Harb- 
.Ké, near Brunfwick, belonging toCount - 
Veltheim ; a picture of a grotto at Ko- 
benzelberg, near Vienna, belonging to 
the celebrated Auttrian negotiator, 
Count Cobenzel ; fome plans for gar- 
dens, by the ingenious architect Thou- 
ret, at Stutgardt; and fome effays on 
French and Englifh gardening. 
Befides a Military Calendar, publithed 
ed by Unger, at Berlin, and the Portrait- 
Gallery of diftinguifhed Captains,a Mi- 
iltary Pocket-book has been pubiithed at 
402 Tubingen, — 
